welcome back to steve rob reviews today is going to be all about this product right here and how
many of you have cracks in your driveway that you want to seal and you're thinking to yourself okay
so what do i got to get well i bet you the last thing most people actually think about getting
is a can of roof repair and uh you know what they go for they used to go for a caulking tube
so you go to your local uh place where you get your caulking or you know like
home depot lowe's some kind of big places big box stores and you buy a tube of this driveway
crack repair and you get a caulking tube like this well you can get 13 of these tubes in one of these
cans and uh i've been doing this for so many years i mean you take a look at how much you're paying
for this compared to how much you pay for one of them cans and it's less than half the price
and it does a better job because you know what when you start using this well you just can't
put it down and leave it you got you got to work it into the ground somehow right so where do i use
this i use it around the foundation of my house and i use it to fill the cracks in my driveway
now the crack the the crack filler that you get in the tube is about the same consistency as this
this is trowel grade and i find they have a liquid too you can get this liquid not works as well but
that's only for fine cracks and it just kind of seeps in and just sits there and from one year
to the next maybe two years at the most if you live in a country like canada well you get the
the freeze thaw effect and yeah you will get cracks reappear you know about every year or
every two years and then you have to touch it up and that's exactly what i do so i'll bring
you over to the bench here and i'll show you the product and i'll just demonstrate one thing first
this is from yesterday so i did some yesterday so i'm going to show you out in the driveway i
did and i put it up against my house and i like to always have this buttered against
the edge of my driveway and the edge of my house so that that great big crack there
just doesn't fill up with all kinds of insect nests and everything else right
you seal it all in and you have no worries so i just stirred it up a bit here so i take a glob
out and then i use my brush i got a disposable brush i just throw away after i'm finished
and this product dries you got to make sure that you get one that dries don't get the one
that stays wet and flexible all the time but so far yeah most of the ones that i've looked into
i made sure that when you buy the roof repair you get the one that dries that's very important
so let's take a look at the product here and uh i'll show you how easy it is to apply i'm
gonna take you out in the driveway and i'll show you but let's take a look at the product first
okay so here's the product right here and it's uh yeah it's called trowel grade now
they have brush grade is as well and you can see here's the consistency of it here
and all i do is from one day to the next is just put it in some paint thinners
and the brush will stay flexible and you can reuse it rather than throw it out i just get these at
the dollar store for a buck a piece and they're disposable more or less so i'll just dry this off
and we'll go out in the driveway and i'll show you how you apply it okay so i'll show you what i did
yesterday and that's pretty much dried right there and if you can take a look now that's just the
edge between my driveway and the foundation of the house and we go along the uh water downspout here
and i did that in the full sun and it took me about 15 minutes and that that's it so i mean
you know that's that's not hard to do and i'll take you over to a spot that i didn't do yet and
i'll show you how easy it is to apply well as you can see there you can see how the cracks form
and they will separate from the freezing to the thawing and i'm just going to overdo that
and cover it over top and it will seal in nice you can take a look on the left and you can take
a look on the fire right there and you can see where i just left that gap in between
just for demonstration purposes so let's put this on and let's see how easy it is to apply
okay so here we'll start off here right up my steps and i've already done this yesterday and
then we come to the piece that i've just done over to about here and you could see how fast that is
to do and i think it's a no-brainer i think it's a great idea and yes i actually use it to fill in
the cracks in my driveway too so if we just take a look at this crack right here
yeah i'll put some in that crack right there and seal it over but you know what the the whole
idea is you fill that crack in you butter it in you smooth it all out you make sure
that you don't step on this or drive on it for at least four days because it takes about four days
for it to actually dry and cure up nice and i'll take you over to some spots that i have to redo
and you can see where i redid this one here from last year and i have to redo it again
and there's a good reason why you should actually do this to your driveway so the
reason why you should actually do this to your driveway is because depending on where you live
if you live in a in a place where it's hot all the time and you don't have any any winter at all well
it's not the same but if you live in a climate where there's you have the freeze and thaw well
you get water and moisture that goes inside the cracks in your driveway or towards your foundation
the water goes in there it freezes expands and it busts up your driveway so a lot of times
you know you can save yourself a lot of money by just sealing it up so what i'll do is i'll seal
this all up completely and then i'll get that black driveway uh paint you know and just redo
the whole driveway over because uh you know what just gonna see all them spots so i mean i do that
about every two years as well but it's maintaining your driveway and preventing water to go to the
foundation of your building you know that causes a lot of you know damage because it'll go down
your block wall and then freezes and separates and causes damage does havoc on the driveways
my driveway was put in many years ago and i have neighbors where their driveway is all split and
cracked and you know especially if you're parking trucks in your driveway like i had three trucks my
driveway and of course just the weight causes the cracks as well so you have to maintain it
and this product here make sure it dries is just awesome because you know what there's no way i'm
going to go through these tubes of caulking like that it would just cost me a fortune
this goes on so nice you see how nice that went on and it's so easy to do take you just a couple
of minutes to do around the whole one foundation of your house and maybe a half a day just to do
half your driveway park your cars on the other half touch it all up let it sit for about four
or five days in the hot hot sun and then move on to the next half so i hope you enjoyed this
little bit of a tip and a little money saving tip as well so you can maintain your driveway
save yourself some money thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel before
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